By David Crystal

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By Peter Mark Roget

This book "supplies a vocabulary of English words and idiomatic phrases 'arranged … according to the ideas which they express'. The thesaurus, continually expanded and updated, has always remained in print, but this reissued first edition shows the impressive breadth of Roget's own knowledge and interests."

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This book examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) usingtechniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. Assuming no priorknowledge of corpora, the book examines and evaluates a variety ofcorpus-based methodologies including: collocations, keyness, concordances,dispersion plots, building and annotating corpora. Illustrated with anumber of real-life examples of corpus-based DA from a range of sources andcovering a variety of subjects, this is an informative introduction tousing corpus linguistics as a methodology in discourse analysis.